John Hoffoss wrote:
> My gentoo laptop allows me to begin typing a command and use pg-up/pg-dn 
> to cycle through my history of commands that matches the typed pattern. 
> As an example, I can type "ls" and press pg-up and if the last list 
> command I did was "ls -la /etc/postfix" it will complete that for me. My 
> server does not do this though, it just types a tilde. (~)
> 
> I can't remember if I altered my laptop to get that behavior or not, but 
> does anyone know where I might look to turn that on?

not sure about gentoo, but under RH, Debian, and Slackware, /etc/inputrc
sets up global key mappings.

try /etc/inputrc or $HOME/.inputrc
see also:  man bash, specifically look for the INPUTRC section.
-- 
scot

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